racer
Americannoun
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a person, animal, or machine that races
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a turntable used to traverse a heavy gun
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any of several long slender nonvenomous North American snakes of the colubrid genus Coluber and related genera, such as C. lateralis ( striped racer )
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The film introduces us to Ricky Bobby’s family with a gross-out splat, implying the soon-to-be stock car racer was born in the back of a speeding Chevelle driven by his reprobate father.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
On the festival’s second day, super-driver Travis Pastrana took the Subaru “Brataroo” rally racer fully agricultural at Turn 2 before gathering it up and rejoining the circuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Former canoe racer David Hearn is accused of pulling at a layer of peeling sealant used in a renovation project that President Trump had personally championed and later claimed was targeted by vandals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Event organisers said six other spectators and the motorbike racer had now been discharged from hospital.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
We ascend the red-carpeted stairs, passing silver sailing trophies and the oil portrait of the hydroplane racer Gar Wood.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Postal outfit who has spent his apres-racing career trying to improve the sport’s reputation and make it possible for racers to ride clean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
On average, racers finish in an hour and a half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Take his 1,000m final - usually this event would have six racers, but in Milan had nine because three athletes were advanced to the medal race after being illegally hindered in their semi-finals.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Belgium's Armand Marchant botched his descent, leaving the three racers who finished the first leg within a second of McGrath.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
He had nothing in common with the stray dogs in the street, much less with the thoroughbred racers that assorted families of the aristocracy were raising.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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